Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:29:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: Temcguire@aol.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interpreter compilers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970909192100.9610A-100000@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: <970909142903_-131376035@emout04.mail.aol.com>
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> Recently, I installed FreeBSD (2.2.2) on a Pentium Pro in an attempt to > upgrade from SPARC. When I attempted to build awkcc (from AT&T Toolchest) I > discovered that flex (GNU) was not happy with awk.lx.l in the awkcc source. > Seems, that flex -l option also would not accommodate the lack of POSIX > compliance in awk.lx.l. I have tried blex (Berkeley port?) and had similar > results. if you showed some of the problems you were getting i could help a little more, why don't you look into the book: flex & bison by O'reilly and Associates, it's really good on explaining the differences with different implementations of flex/lex... y'know what might work, see if there is an emulation package that will work with the binaries that you have, FreeBSD has a slew of emulators for various operating systems, you might just have to recompile your kernel or install a package from the distribution or ports. > Question#2: Can PERL scripts be translated into C and compiled into > executables? Do regular expressions and associative arrays (awk) exist in > any other languages that can be translated and compiled? honestly Perl is considered 5 to 10 times faster than AWK anyhow, so just using interpreted Perl might be fast enough. > Thank you for any possible assistance! > Dr. Thomas E. McGuire > 411 East 9th Avenue > Salt Lake City, UT 84103 > > P.S., > The Pentium Pro I purchased (Micron Inc.) has the option of a second > processor. I have 64Mb of memory and wonder if I installed another > processor, would FreeBSD operate much faster? Yes amazingly faster, however you would have to deal with the SMP (symetric mutiprocessing kernel) which hasn't been as stable lately, join the "freebsd-smp" mailing list to find out how it is doing, maybe you could get ahold of a earlier more stable version of the kernel godd luck, Alfred
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